Send Karen Hughes to the middle east, she can solve it.

[IChing]

You remember her right? She was the administration's answer to diplomacy in the middle east.
He appointed her under secretary of state for public diplomacy and given the mission
of trying to repair the image of the United States around the globe, especially in the Arab world.
By God, I think she can do the job that she has prepared herself for all her life.

Karen could meet with women one week in a bomb shelter in Israel and then the next week in a bombed out basement in Lebanon.
She was appointed to this job for a reason damn it, and they are not letting her do her job.

The fact is even Rice has commented on Karen's abilities:

The Association of South East Asian Nations has a tradition of ministers performing usually silly skits at a gala dinner, but Rice, an accomplished pianist, said she was more at ease playing a serious, reflective piece, possibly by the composer Brahms.

“It is not a time that is frivolous. It is a serious time. I will play something that is in accordance with my serious mood,” said Rice, who had just attended a conference in Rome aimed at helping resolve the Lebanon crisis.
Rice said she would not be comfortable singing show tunes.

“I trust my piano playing more than I trust Karen’s singing,” joked Rice, referring to her public diplomacy chief, Karen Hughes, who is also in Kuala Lumpur. Hughes quickly shot back: “She’s right, I can’t even hum.”
http://www.airamericaplace.com/comment.php?id=771

See, this is what I'm talking about honesty and confidence.

Look what her trips did for the middle east last year
and imagine what she could do now a year later after her successess

"Many people around the world do not understand the important role that faith plays in Americans' lives," she said. When an Egyptian opposition leader inquired why Mr Bush mentions God in his speeches,
Hughes asked him whether he was aware that "previous American presidents have also cited God,
and that our constitution cites 'one nation under God'."

"Well, never mind," he said.

http://www.democracycellproject.net/blog/archives/2005/10/karen_hughes_di.html

http://heartsoulandhumor.blogspot.com/2005/10/karen-hughes-blunders-and-embarrasses.html

[Monkeyman]

1. Super witch will cover it up just like Bush's military record

[rzemanfl]

2. Your suggestion is like light-years from Normal....n/t

[BrotherBuzz]

3. She was appointed to this job for one reason....

Her job was to bolster the slumping support among the 'base'. Her work and words are exclusively tailored for domestic consumption. Bank on it.

[IChing]

4. Sorta like Brownie and Fema

I think that she should be pointed out as another great failure of this administration middle east policies
and a political point the democrats can use to their advantage.

[spindrifter]

6. She exemplifies BushCo's personnel selection practices:

an incompetent croney placed in a position for which she has no background. Brownie fraternized with the horses' asses' Karen Huge fraternizes with the asses.

[bluedeminredstate]

5. I think you're on to something...

It's time to get our money's worth dammit! Just think of the cost of flying her diplomatic ass all over the world on private jets to the various places where she goes and winds up offending everyone. Not to mention her bang up support staff that keep her informed about all the cultural nuances of the various places that need her, eh, special brand of diplomacy, which apparently is a giant middle finger. She must cost this country A LOT of tax dollars for the privilege of having a fancy title and getting to have Condisleeaza as your boss.

Why not put her in one of those UN observation stations on the border of Israel and Lebanon and let her practice all the diplomacy she's learned on the job? I could definitely get on board with that!

:popcorn:

[tanyev]

7. I would be happy to buy a large black burkha for her to wear.

Worth every penny.

[IChing]

8. They are sending her out again, jezz sorry folks-LBN

Hughes on mission to change views abroad - and at home
(I knew she would come out of the closet in the basement of their anti-diplomacy)

WASHINGTON – Karen Hughes looks back on her first few days at the State Department as a worrisome benchmark.

...

Setting out with limited diplomatic experience abroad, Ms. Hughes was sometimes tentative on her early stops and continues to encounter sharp dissension over U.S. policy. And there was the well-publicized misstep in June when one of her top aides, Colleen Graffy, the deputy assistant secretary for public diplomacy, told the British Broadcasting Corp. that three Guantánamo suicides had been a "good PR move to draw attention."


"Occasionally, when you are out there talking, you say something you regret," Ms. Hughes said. "And that was the case there."



...

On nearly every front, Ms. Hughes readily acknowledges that her job is a challenge. And that was before the war in the Middle East turned up the world spotlight on U.S. policy in the region, particularly its unyielding support of Israel.

"People will tell me we disagree with your policy," she said, recalling her first diplomatic tour of the Middle East last year, "and I make the case that we support a Palestinian state."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2441049&mesg_id=2441049